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No. 449,164. Patented Mar. 31, 1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH P. )lAlVlOX, JR, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

CASH AND SALES REGISTER SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No.449,164, dated March 31, 1891.

Application filed April 28, 1890. faerial No. 349,750. (No model) ToctZZ who/w it nmg concern;

Be it known that I, JOSEPH P. lllANTON, Jr., a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State ofRhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCasl1-Registers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear,-a11d exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the ac companying drawings, and to lettersof referenee marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in cash-registers ot aportable type; and it consists, essentially, of a machine combiningamong its features a positive automatic feed device forthe web of paperon which the sales, &c., are entered, and having the dial or slottedplate arranged to vibrate axially by the operation of opening andclosing the moneydrawer.

It also consists in certain other novel features, all as will be morefully hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the appended four sheets of drawings, illustratingmy improvedcash-register, Fign re 1, Sheet 1, represents in reduced scale a plan ortop view, the cash-drawer being closed. Fig. 2 is a front elevation.Fig. 3 is a plan view, the drawer being open and the slotted platerevolved toward the front, so as to enable the customer to note theamount of his purchase. Fig. 4; is a plan view enlarged, the

cover being removed, showing the relative arrangement of the parts whenthe drawer is closed. Fig. 5, Sheet 2, is a similar view, but showingthe relation of the parts when He drawer is open. Fig. is a partialvertical sectional view taken on line to :n of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is adetail drawing of the hell or gong. Fig. 8, Sheet 3, is a verticalsectional view taken 011 line m m of Fig. 5. Fig. 9 is a similarsectional view taken on line 0 o of Fig. 4-. Fig. 10 is a sectional viewtaken on line 291), Fig. 4. Fig. 11 is a plan view showing the drawer,being closed and causing the feed rolls to be actuated. Fig. 1:? is aseparate view of a portion of the feeding device, Fig. 13, Sheet 4, isan enlarged sectional view taken through the center of the rewiuder-rolland showing the friction arrangement. Fig. ltis a plan view of theslotted plate enlarged; and Fig. 15 represents a piece of the ruledcheck or sales paper adapted to be used on my improved cash-register.

Again referring to the drawings, A designates my improved cash or salesregister as a whole. Usually the frame or case portion 0 is made ofsuitable wood and provided with a hinged top or cover I". The form ofthe case as drawn is rectangular, although other forms may be adopted.An opening-hole r is formed in the center of the cover. The interior ofthe case is divided horizontally by a metallic plate or partition Z),secured to side cleats b. Below this plate a drawer (Z, of ordinaryconstruction, is fitted to slide freely to and fro, although preventedfrom being entirely with drawn. The drawer is divided into compartments,as usual, to receive paper money, coin, the. To the rear end is secureda pin a, which extends slightly above the edge of the drawer and engagesa slot 14 formed in the free or outer end of a thin lever or arm a,which in turn is pivoted at i to the left side of the base I). (See Fig.4-, rte.) From this it will be seen that the lever-is caused to vibrateby and in unison with the drawer, as in opening and closing. The pin Fextends up through the base and has a segment-gear m secured thereto.The opposite portion of the hub of the gear is provided with a lateralextension or short arm m, carrying at its free end a pin 711- on whichis loosely mounted a dog 1' arranged and adapted to trip a hammer 2' ofthe stationary bell or alarm .2 during the drawers movement.

Directly in line with the center of the hole 7: of the cover a pin 1! isfitted to turn in the base Z). This pin or pivot is secured to the underside of a metallic frame a, carrying a feed mechanism, do, about to bedescribed. To the upper side of the frame a is secured a gear-wheel m,which meshes into the segment-gear m, before described. Near one edge ofthe wheel on is secured a pin, on which is fitted a loose collarh Astiff spiral spring f connects with this collar and the said dog orcollar By suitably proportioning the gears m and m it is evident that amovement, say, of ninety degrees (corresponding to the full outwardmovement of the cash-drawer) IOC A will impart to the gear m a movementof one hundred and eighty degrees, or one-half of a revolution, as inFigs. 4 and 5. At the same time (see Fig. 4) the spring f is underconsiderable tension, its action then being to keep the drawer closed.Now by applyingsufflcient force the drawer is drawn out; but as soon asthe ends of the spring pass the fixed centers 25 t the spring incontracting operates to automatically assist in forcing the draweroutwardly nearly to its limit, as shown in Fig. 5. In closing the drawerthe salesman must obviously exert a pressure against its exceeding thatof the spring or until the spring itself again passes the centers, whenit immediately and automatically acts through the gears, slotted leverto, andpin a to fully close the drawer.

The paper-carrying and actuating mechanism is mounted in the frame a,the base portion being secured to the pivot-pin t and as the gear 'm isalso-centrally secured to the base it follows that the frame and itsmechanism must revolve or vibrate back and forth, corresponding to thedrawers movement. Two parallel sides extend upwardly from the frontportion of the frame, which are bent rearwardly and terminate inbearings which carry the rewinder-roll 3 (See Fig. 9.) The sides areconnected by front and rear ties 10 19, so arranged that their'upperfaces are substantially flush with the top of the cover t. The upperside of the forward tie p is provided with a suitable surface, overwhich the sales-paperintermittingly passes. A finished metal slottedplate (1 is detachably secured to theties and a look I is attached tothe under side of the plate, the rear tie 19 being adapted to receivethe bolt Z of the look, as indicated in Fig. 10, &c., the bolt beingoperated by a key 70. (Shown by dotted lines.) The plate d is providedwith an elongated transverse opening 0, which coincides with the pad orupper surface of the tie 19. At the forward side of the frame or the endof the case a, through which the cash-drawer passes, is mounted atransverse loose center or arbor a, adapted to carry the roll g, onwhich the web of supply-paper p is wound. I would state that the paperis omitted in the several enlarged figures, except Fig. 0, so as torender the mechanism clearer.

The feeding device is constructed and adapted for operationsubstantially as follows: To the top portion of the frame a the upperteed-roll ris mounted to revolve. The bottom feed-roll r is mounted intwo loose side arms 8, supported by the arbor of the re winder-roll y.These arms are yielding by means of springs f which thereby permit thefeed-rolls to automatically accommodate themselves to variousthicknesses of paper 11 At the same time the springs serve to check anytendency of the rolls from accidental rotation.v The upper roll isprovided at one end with a gear-wheel g,'which actuates a similar gearon the lower roll and also drives a gear frictionally mounted on thetake-up shaft or rewinder-roll, the several wheels of the gear-trainbeing substantially alike. (See Figs. 8, 11, the.) The opposite or rightend of the top roll-shaft is provided with a ratchetwheel 0", securedthereto, a pawl-carrying angle-lever or bell-crank c beinglooselymounted on the shaft. To the other arm of said lever c is jointed apush-rod a mounted in a bearing 1), attached to the adjacent verticalside of the framed. The forward end of the push-rod is beveled off so asto engage a stationary cam-shaped arm 0, secured to the front side ofthe base-plate b. This cam is so arranged that the free end of the rod awill engage it just before the cash-drawer is closed, so that the finalmovement of the drawer will not only carry the mechanism as a whole fromthe position represented in Fig. 11 to the normal position Fig. 4, butat the same time force the rod rearwardly, thereby causing the pawl 9,Fig.12, to vibrate the feed-roll a certain angulardistance through themedium of the ratchet-wheel r Obviously while thus turning the rollswill draw or feed the paper a corresponding distance,

unwinding it from the supply-roll y and rcwinding a like amount upon theroll y. As soon as the rod passes the point a of the cam, a spring facts to return the loose arm 0 and pawl to the normal position, ready toagain actuate the feed-rolls uponclosing the cashdrawer. A stop aattached to the push-rod,

serves to limit the springs action when the.

rod is disengaged from the cam. The'curved portion e of the cam issubstantially concentric with the-center gear m. Therefore rotarymovement is not imparted to the rolls while the rod is in contactwithsuch' curved portion. vided with a screw-threaded collar or nutarranged to frictionally engage the driving gear g, loosely mounted uponthe rolls arbor. By this or other equivalent means the increasingdiameter of the roll is provid edfor, corresponding to the amount ofpaper being wound thereon, thus insuring thatthe paper is snugly wound.In Fig. 13 this device is more clearly represented. The roll y issecured to the arbor or shaft, the latter having, say, a fixed collar orflange g against which the looselymounted gear g bears. A spring 70 isinterposed between the gear and said threaded collar or nut 70 By thismeans the tension or frictional pressure upon the gear may be nicelyadjusted. From the foregoing it will be seen that the feed is positiveand regular or uniform, because in opening the drawer d only a shortdistancesay one and one-half or two inches-the end of the push-rod awill slide along the cam-surface e by the action of the spring f untilarrested by the stop a thereby carrying the pawl p 'aroundthe wheel runtil it engages the .next tooth, so that if the drawer be thenimmediately closed this latter movement will actuate the feed-rolls andrewinder-roll the same angular distance The rewinder-roll y may be proasthough the drawer had been fully opened, as in Figs. 8, 5, and 8, andclosed. At the same time the short movement of the drawer causes thealarm-bell to be sounded.

The web of check or sales paper i as drawn is ruled transversely intosix equal divisions, each having a dollars column and a cents column.Thepaperthus ruled may have any convenient length, limited only by thecapacity of the supply and rewinder rolls y 3 I prefer, however, to havethe strip of paper perforated, as at 1)" Fig. 15, at regular intervalsof a few feet, in order that it may be readily severed, therebyfacilitating the process of adding the amounts of the several sales. Theobject of a cash-register of this type is that the sales-paper shall befed ahead a distance equal. to the width of the opening 0 of therotating plate every time the cash-drawer is opened to receive or payout money, the amount of such money being first entered in theappropriate column by the salesman.

In Fig. 14 the plate is engraved so as to indicate at theleft thedailyor current expenses, and at the right the amounts received oncredit accounts, while intermediate of these the individual sales offour salesmen are provided for-that is to say, an amount of blank ruledpaper is exposed at all times through the display-opening 0. After theproper entry has been made by the salesman in the appropriate column thedrawer is opened by him and the money deposited therein or paid out, asthe case may be. As the drawer com mences to open the alarm rings, andthe plate, together with the mechanism beneath it, turns in the arrowdirection, Fig. 14, until its position is reversed, or as shown in Fig.3, so that the purchaser, in the case of a sale having been made, cansee and read for himself the entry made by the clerk upon the paper, thefigures then facing the purchaser, so that they may be read readily. Asthe drawer is closed after the money is charged, the slotted platerevolves back to its normal position, the entry figures being visibleuntil the drawer is nearly closed, as before described. The salesman isrequired to open and close the drawer for each sale or entry. Byobserving this rule it is obvious that only one entry can appear in eachlateral division. (See Fig. 15.)

The slotted plate may be provided with pins 0, which serve, inconnection with the lock, to keep itin place. In order to renew thepaper, it is only necessary to unlock the bolt Z, when the plate can bereadily removed. The paper is then taken from the rewinder-roli 3 and afilled roll 1/ introduced at the front upon the arbor (L5, the free endof the paper being next carried up over the pad 1) and between thefeed-rolls, and finally attached to the rewinder-roll. Pieces of rubberr sccured to the base 17, serve as buffers to receive and deaden theshock of the frame a when the drawer is opened and closed.

by the employment of the spring f the cash-drawer is automaticallycarried to its limit both outward and inward after the spring has passedthe centers of the gears m m, as in opening and closing the drawer,thereby also insuring that the posit-ion of the plate is fully reversed.The plate itself may be made very ornamental, if desired, thus producingan attractive mechauically-operating advertising device.

It is evident that the arrangement of the aperture (or apertures) O,aswell as the manner'of ruling the check-paper, may be modified or variedin conformity with the class of service for which the cash-register maybe used.

I claim as my invention-- 1. A cash register or indicator of the classhereinbefore described, having a moneydrawer adapted to be opened andclosed and having a pivotallyanounted frame carrying feeding and take-upmechanism for the salespaper, and a slotted plate, said frame,mechanism, and plate being rotated or vibrated by the act of opening andclosing the moneydrawer.

.2. In a cash-register, the combination, with an apertured or slottedplate, paper-feeding mechanism, and a mounted frame adapted torotarymovement carrying said plate and feeding mechanism, of a hell oralarm, a movable money-drawer, and mechanism connecting the drawer withthe said frame, whereby the act of opening and closing the drawer soundsthe alarm, operates the feeding device, and rotates the slotted plate,substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

3. The combination, with a pair of pivotally-mounted intergearing gearshaving unequal radii, and a spring attached to both gears at pointsbeyond their centers, of a frame portion secured to and vibrating inunison with the smaller gear, supply and rewinder rolls andpositively-driven feed-rolls mounted in said f 'ame, a slotted platedetachably secured to and surmounting the frame, and a moneydrawerconnected with and adapted to actuate the larger gear, whereby the actof opening and closing the drawer actuates the several rolls a certainangular distance and revolves said frame and slotted plate one-half of arevolution from its normal position and back again, substantially as setforth.

4-. The eombination,witl1 a pivotally-mounted frame, an apertured diskor slotted plate seen red thereto, a supply-roll, a yielding takeup orrewinder-roll, geared feed-rolls intergearing with and actuating therewinder-roll and all mounted in said frame, of a stationary cam andspring push-rod actuating a ratchetwheel secured to one of thefeed-rolls, and a money-drawer connected with an actuating device ormechanism, whereby the said frame is vibrated back and forth one-half arevolution by the act of opening and closing the drawer,substantiallyashereinbefore set forth.

5. A cash-register having a slotted top plate,

a Web of check or sales paper mounted on supply and I rewinder rolls,mechanism for feeding the web of paper, a money-drawer, aspring-restrained lever, and gearing connected with and actuated by thedrawer, whereby the act of opening and closing the moneydrawer causesthe slotted plate and its supporting-frame, &c., to revolve back andforth, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

6. A cash-register having a slotted plate, a pivotally-mounted frame,andmechanism connected therewith and with the slotted plate, adapted toreceive a web of paper and intermittinglypass it across the platesaperture, and a money-drawer arranged and adapted to vibrate said frameand plate back and forth by the act of openingand closing the drawer,substantially as described.

and adapted to assist in operating the drawer to its limit,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

JOSEPH P. MANION, JR.

I Witnesses:

CHARLES HAN-NIGAN, GE'o. H. REMINGTON.

